Sentence examples for curiously distant from inspiring English sources

Still, whatever additional information may be provided, the photographs have in general a curiously distant, meditative mood.

As a result, she feels curiously distant all night, no matter how hard she's working: you can hardly believe it's her up there.

In addition, the 1990 English recording surrounds the piano sound with a cloud of echo, lending the performances a curiously distant and monumental quality that makes them sound turgid even when tempos are slightly faster than in 1987.

That gift has sadly not been conferred on Kimberley Walsh who, for all her fame with Girls Aloud, cuts a curiously distant figure as Buddy's joyless girl-friend, Jovie.

I feel curiously distant from everything as if I am watching a movie about myself and the person playing me is a stranger.

Seniors haven't been immune — most have seen their property values go down, too, and some have faced foreclosure — but many of those who live in the midst of what seems like a foreclosure apocalypse seem curiously distant from what is happening to their neighbors.

Curiously, "A Distant Shore" is bleaker than Phillips's historical novels, in which he takes on the cruelty and devastation of slavery.

Despite Andy's frequent attempts to curry favor and get a break in the business, Martin remains curiously remote, beaming with goodwill and an air of professional camaraderie on the few occasions when he makes time for Andy, but more often a distant presence whose professed interest in Andy's aesthetic and emotional maturing is more frustrating than practically helpful.

The benevolent headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore, is curiously absent -- or distant -- for large portions of the book, and so, for that matter, is Harry's Falstaffian friend, Hagrid, the school's gamekeeper.

Curiously, Church was also a distant relation of Richard Church, who had been among Hooker's party.

Yet, curiously, in personal relations he could be distant.